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Indissoluble and its antonym dissoluble ("capable of being dissolved or disintegrated") both date their first print appearances to the 16th century, and both owe a debt to Latin dissolubilis, which means "dissoluble; capable of being dissolved." While the word dissolve in that gloss may call to mind the chemical process by which something mixed with a liquid becomes part of the liquid (as when salt or sugar dissolve in water), indissoluble primarily relates to other meanings of dissolve: "destroy" and "disintegrate," "terminate" and "annul." Something indissoluble—such as a treaty, contract, or vow—is permanent. The English word dissolve, in all its meanings, is a cousin to indissoluble and dissoluble. Dissolubilis derives from Latin dissolvere (from dis- + solvere, "to loosen") the source of our word dissolve.
Examples of indissoluble in a Sentence
Julia M. Klein,
Los Angeles Times,
5 May 2026
They are linked in an essential, indissoluble bond.
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Llewellyn King,
Forbes,
28 Nov. 2023
But Céline’s reputation is indissoluble from his strange political fate.
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Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
15 June 2022
Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!
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Jack Butler,
National Review,
22 Aug. 2021
The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual and as indissoluble as the union between the original States.
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Abigail Rosenthal,
Chron,
10 Dec. 2020
Despite the great minds wrestling with it, the vexed question of how to live continues to induce a state of indissoluble anxiety.
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Washington Post,
24 Nov. 2020
As art historian Nell Andrew writes in the exhibition catalog, the indissoluble coupling of music and dance proved influential in Orphism’s pictorial tendencies (much in the way that figure and ground often prove indistinguishable in Orphic imagery).
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Ara H. Merjian,
ARTnews.com,
3 Sep. 2019
Cite this Entry
“Indissoluble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indissoluble. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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